Free Web NovelChapter 42: Chapter42-The Witch Council and the City Lord’s Mansion Fight Over Him
[Congratulations! You have cleared the Trial of the First Seat!]
[Congratulations! You have awakened the class core: Arcane Nexus!]
[Congratulations! You have obtained the server-wide unique hidden class: All-Class Magus!]
[A World Announcement will now be issued!]
[World Announcement: Axis City player "Outlander" has become the first to clear the Trial of the First Seat. Reward: EXP +10,000, Reputation +10,000!]
[Congratulations! You have obtained an exclusive reward: Divine Skill Chest x1!]
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Before John could even react, a dazzling white radiance suddenly erupted from his body and shot into the sky.
This was no ordinary class-change effect.
It was like a white spear piercing through heaven and earth, tearing through the clouds above the black lake.
The beam soared straight into the firmament, shattering the seal barrier that had covered this land for three hundred years.
Then, high above the sky, the pillar of light unfolded into a vast and majestic cross of radiance.
A terrifying pressure of divinity instantly spread out, enveloping the entire Northern Exclusion Zone.
At that moment, all of Axis City was shaken.
Countless high-ranking NPCs throughout the city raised their heads and looked toward the north.
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Witch Council Headquarters.
The witches’ round table trembled violently, and the twelve candles above it flickered and swayed.
The figures of the witches who had only just departed manifested once more.
They stared toward the north, their expressions filled with uncertainty and shock.
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Deep within the City Lord’s Mansion, Shyron, who had been resting with his eyes closed, suddenly opened them.
Golden light burst from his eyes as he rose to his feet.
"He actually succeeded?"
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Within the encampments of the major guilds, several players with special detection abilities also sensed the abnormality in the north.
They turned their gazes toward the northern sky, only to see a blinding white radiance.
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Inside the sealed zone, John was the first to react.
He could sense hundreds of powerful auras rapidly converging on his location.
Even the weakest among them far surpassed anything current players were supposed to come into contact with.
John immediately realized that the commotion he had just caused was far too great.
He had only just obtained the All-Class Magus class and had not even had time to familiarize himself with its abilities.
If he were surrounded by all the top forces of Axis City right now, it would undoubtedly lead to serious trouble.
Without hesitation, John activated a movement skill.
With the help of the Arcane Nexus he had just awakened, he unified and coordinated his skills, drawing upon multiple types of spatial movement abilities.
After several consecutive spatial folds, John quickly left the black lake area.
However, he did not go far.
Instead, he concealed himself in the shadows of a highland outside the former seal and quietly observed the situation at the lake from a distance.
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Axis City Lord’s Mansion.
As the barrier over the Northern Exclusion Zone was dispersed by John’s beam of light, the power that Shyron had used for years to maintain the seal finally began to flow back into him.
For three hundred years, in order to suppress the meteorite corruption, a portion of his power had always been diverted to guard the northern lands and sustain the seal.
That was precisely why he had never been able to take the final step.
But now, that heavy dragging sensation was gone.
Shyron’s aura began to rise rapidly, and the entire City Lord’s Mansion trembled faintly as a result.
For the first time, uncontrollable excitement appeared in his eyes.
"The seal... has truly been broken?"
The figure of that adventurer immediately surfaced in his mind.
If the other party had truly resolved the northern corruption, then his potential was far beyond what Shyron had imagined.
More importantly, within that beam of light just now, Shyron had sensed a trace of the path to godhood.
That was definitely not something an ordinary hidden class could trigger.
Only those who had truly touched a higher realm could possibly cause such a phenomenon.
Shyron did not hesitate. He set off at once.
He had to personally visit the Northern Exclusion Zone and find out what had happened.
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At the same time, the Witch Council reacted with equal speed.
The Stargazing Witch and the Thorn Witch arrived at the Northern Exclusion Zone almost simultaneously.
Ever since John had entered the trial, the Thorn Witch had been restless.
Although her words were always sharp and unforgiving, she knew very well that the Trial of the First Seat had remained untouched for centuries precisely because it was far too dangerous.
No matter how astonishing that adventurer’s talent was, there was no guarantee he would come out alive.
Therefore, when the pillar of light appeared, her first reaction was not joy, but concern that the trial had gone out of control.
After all, such a commotion could only have been caused by the trial losing control, right?
The Stargazing Witch, standing beside her, was not nearly as flustered.
In her eyes, the gradually fading cross of light in the sky was reflected clearly.
Deep within her pupils, rivers of starlight churned violently.
Yet no matter how she observed, John’s fate remained impossible to glimpse.
To be precise, John’s thread of fate had vanished from her observation for a single instant.
She had only ever encountered such a phenomenon once before, when she had tried to peer into the figure of the First Seat.
She had never expected it to appear again now, on an adventurer.
The two of them flew rapidly toward the black lake.
By the time they arrived above it, City Lord Shyron had also reached the scene.
The three of them looked down at the same time, only to discover that John had already disappeared from the surface of the lake.
The black lake was perfectly calm, as though everything that had just happened had been nothing more than an illusion.
Shyron withdrew his gaze and swept his eyes over the two witches.
"That adventurer entered the Northern Exclusion Zone with access permission granted by my City Lord’s Mansion," he said calmly. "This matter concerns the seal of Axis City. My City Lord’s Mansion must bring that adventurer back for questioning."
The Thorn Witch sneered.
"He was sent into the Trial of the First Seat by our Witch Council, and the key was granted by the witches’ round table. No matter how you try to twist it, your City Lord’s Mansion merely opened a door for him. And now you want to take him from us?"
Shyron replied evenly, "I hope you understand one thing clearly. The Northern Exclusion Zone falls under the jurisdiction of my City Lord’s Mansion."
The Stargazing Witch hugged her crystal ball and smiled sweetly.
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Each side held to its own claim, and hostility gradually began to surface.
Shyron stared at the Stargazing Witch, his tone darkening.
"You must have sensed it as well. There was a trace of godhood in that light just now."
The Thorn Witch’s expression shifted slightly, and the vigilance in her heart deepened.
Of course they had sensed it.
But precisely because they had sensed it, they could not possibly allow the City Lord’s Mansion to take John away so easily.
An adventurer capable of clearing the Trial of the First Seat was already important enough.
If that adventurer was also connected to the path to godhood, then he was no longer merely a talented individual.
He was a variable capable of influencing the future balance of the entire Crossbridge Continent.
Such a person could only be taken away by the Witch Council.
Seeing that the two witches refused to back down, Shyron’s expression darkened.
A terrifying pressure slowly began to emanate from his body.
His level and strength were both above those of the two witches before him.
Moreover, now that the Northern Exclusion Zone had been released, his condition was rapidly recovering to its peak.
Facing two witches alone was not particularly difficult for him.
But the Thorn Witch did not retreat even half a step.
Flames and thorny vines gradually appeared around her body as she said coldly, "City Lord, your level is indeed higher than ours.
"But Stargazing and I are not helpless either. Are you certain you want to fight us here?"
Beside her, the Stargazing Witch still wore a smile on her face, but the crystal ball in her arms had already risen into the air.
Within the sphere, starlight flowed and shifted.
In the unseen depths of fate, Shyron’s trajectory had already been locked onto.
